Teddies Comfort Kentucky Children

• Tuesday, September 18, 2007

He told the operator what happened and said he and his younger siblings hid all night because they were afraid.

"Somebody broke into our house last night and I don't know who it was and they killed everybody here except my sister, my brother and me," one of the children reported to police. His mother and grandmother were dead, but the children were not harmed.

The three young witnesses 9 yrs, 5 years and 3 years will be taken to Family Services and receive the hugs of teddies from the Kelsey Briggs Chapter of Hugs in Oklahoma.  Thank you for being there for children in crisis.

Floods In Findlay, Ohio

• Friday, August 24, 2007

Flash floods from constant and torrential rains soaked the Midwest flooding homes, stranding motorist and closing major transportation routes.  Hugs chapters, both old and new, set out to help the American Red Cross as they created shelter after shelter around the Findlay, Ohio area.

Cincinnati's Church of the Nazarene Chapter joined a new chapter entitled "Bear Necessities" of Columbus and the Stonybrook United Methodist Church of  Gahanna, Ohio, whose teddy program is joining our effort to provide hundreds of teddy bears to those children whose families are stranded and whose home are lost.

A special thanks to all for your quick response.

Utah Miners

• Sunday, August 19, 2007

Families are frustrated but continue to hope that six trapped miners are alive.  Work is temporarily stopped after another cave in at the Crandall Canyon Mine killed three rescurer workers and injured six more.

The Mountain Valley American Red Cross nearby Huntington, Utah  has given teddies to the families and now needs 35 more.  "We need all the hugs we can get", acknowledges Katrina Pope of the Red Cross. "We are running out of time, families are beginning to feel that they have given up."

Church Shooting In Missouri

• Sunday, August 12, 2007

The service was being held at the First Congregational Church in southwestern Missouri with up to 50 worshippers, including children and the elderly,  when a gunman burst into the church.  The minister, and two  deacons were killed and 5 others injured when the gunman started shooting during the service.

Capt. Richard Leavans of the Newton County Sherriff's Department in Neosho, Missouri, felt that the hugs of teddies would cetainly be comforting when the children returned to church.  "It could have been a worse disaster, at least he let the children go...but going back to church, knowing what happened, will be tough."  25 Hugs teddies will be very welcome.